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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-12
M1istellautuns &eadiug.
THE GREATEST or GREAT WALLS.

Says "a Correspondent of the Milling
Vorld, who has recently been travelling
in China OF course we had to 60 to the
great wall of China. The country abounds
in great walls. Her mural defenses were
the most eXtensive-Walled country, wall
ed cities, walled villages, walled palaces
and temples-Wall after wall and wall
within wall. But the greatest of all is
the great wall of China, which crests
the mountain range and crosses the gorge
fromhere some forty miles away. Squeez-
ngthrough the last deep gorge and aAdeep
rift in the solid rock cut out by ages of
rolling wheels and tramping feet, we
reach the great, frowning, double bastion-
ed gateof stone and hard Burned brick
one archway tumbled in. This was the
object Of our mission, the great wall of
China, built 213 years before our era; built
Fof huge slabs of we'll hewn stone, laid in
regular courses some twenty feet high and
then topped out with large hard burned
bricks, filled in with earth and closely
paved on the; top with moEatdark, tawny
brick-the ramparts high and thick and
castellated for the use of arms. Rightand
left the great wall sprang far up the noun
tain side-noW straight, now curved, to
meet the mountains ridge, turretted each
300 feet-a frOWningmass fmasonry. No
need to tell you of this wall; the books
will tell you how it was built to keep the
warlike Tartars out-twenty-fve feet high
by forty thick, 1,200miles long, with room
on top for six horses to drive abreast.
Nor need tell you that for !, 400 years
it kept those hordes at'bay, nor that, in
the main, the material used upon it is
just as good and firm and strong as when
put in place. Twelve hundred miles of
this gigantic work built on the rugged,
craggy mountain tops, vaulting over gorg-
es, spanning wide streams, netting the
river .archways with huge hard bars of
copper, with double gates, with swinging
doors set thick with iron armor-a wonder
in the world before which the old-time
classic seven wonders, all gone now save
the great pyramid, were toys. The great
pyramid has S5,000,OO0 cubic feet, the
great wall {, ,350, 900, 900 cubic feet. An en-
gineer in Stewards party here some years
ago gave it as his opinion that the cost
of this wall, figuring labor at the same
rate, would more than equal that of all
the 100, 900 miles of railroad in the United
States. The material it contains would
build wall six feet high and two feet
thick right Straightforward the globe. Yet
this was done in only twenty years with.
out trace of debt or bond. tits the great
est individual labor the world has ever
known.
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"What, then, is your idea of womansH

"What, then, is your idea Of womanfH 1
asked. se2l
u have drawn up n set Of beaut9 rules, J"
sne replied, rising and going tol her desk
~They will te the best answer toyour q,ies.
tion." She laughed with great sporti
so that could not tell whether she vas Jest
ing or in earnest.
So she gave me her beauty rule thsfe and
then. But these I reserve forthe last chap
ter Of this story, when. in parting gtthh my
readers and my heroinc. mall naFsfe two
curious illustrations II Mar power 70 please.
Irepeat this story Ffitten sioE the in
struction Of the tena c thousslds of Eng
lishwomen who can be HE Sophia Temple if
they try. Whoever 90 my fair readers will
follow this amiablsex ample shall be relieved
of the anxiety Of glancing over her shoulder
Tor ever to sec Mhgk brighter beauty Of later
date ana fresher charms pay be coming up
behind. Youth jand the attractions of youth
need no. BE- Aespised By such woman;
neither need they be enyied. Her knowledge
of sochty. hs!h ways Of the world, her fam
iliarlty With isharsete these, together with
taste, reaae8n virtue, and tthe desire tp
please, viii 7kiysher the victory over time.
Like our ii dafxady Beauty, she, too. shan be
charInipg 10 her Attest day
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OUR GIRLS.

The following from "Gilderoy" in the
Wesleyan Christian Adyocate stoo good to
pass by. He says:
And why not let our girls and women
do much of the lighter work our boys are
now doing? They can DO this work just
as well, or better than any of the boys.
ltwon't hurt our girls, won't make them
less Sensitive, less modest, less religious,
less prudeat, less lady-like. 1t will make
them healthier, wealthier, wiser, stronger,
more independent, more self.reliant, more
economical-they will be better women,
better wives and mothers and better mem
bers of society every way. Girls of this
kind will make good helpmeets, rather
than helpeats, when they get married.
Indeed they will take care ofSthemselves
and not marry atall unless the boys move
up 'car length or two.' confess to yon,
Doctor, the outlook for worthy husbands
is not very promising in some parts OF this
country. II some of the young WOmen
marry, at all, they will have to marry g
nothing-a nobody or next thing to- 1T.
Some silly girls stick their hands In q
siughandle' and call it husband A MICS,
pure woman can't be happy in the rela-
tion of wife to lager beer keg-she can't.
- "OlDdu- WllC-Ou7hV " oASNSASaSS 'SA
husband, and she will too. She will l'rev-
erence him next to God, if he is clean,
nice man worthy of it. 1t is against ma
ture, against the nature of good woman
to reverence an impure, worthless, besot-
ted sort of man. That some good women
are gentle and kind to dissipated, worth
less husbands, grows out of the fact that
they hope, down to the last day, that some
change for the better will come over the
men to whom they have tied themselves.
They sit and long, and wait and pray for
change. Some of these prayers are an
swered while the wife liyes, more are an
swered after the wife dies, and some not
answered at all, neither in this world nor
in the world to come. God will answer
prayer, but God can't force a moral agent.
That our sons and husbands, for whom we
pray are not saved is not because God is
not willing, but because they are not
willing. No power in heaven, earth or
hell can force the will of free agent-not
even the power of God, nor the power OF a
good woman. This is one that is not con-
tr6lled by power. This wife is willing
and anxious for her husband to be saved,
and God is willing and anxious to save
him, but the husband will not have the
man Christ Jesus to rule over him. The
trouble, the obstacle, is the man for whom
Christ died and for whom the wife prays.
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thft night when we was 'scrouging' to see the
tluminations,' and she said she'd sooner a
DIAL have me to take care of her than Steve
JHckson; for Steve was we'll to do in the
Yorld-set up for himself, with horse and
cart and all complete, in the green grocery
line, master man. He was better figure
sof man to look at, too, for it's no use m
trying to make believe as was ever SO ham
some as she thought me-"
MRS. PEBBLES was next asked to speak.
Jtst then Sally, beckoned Honor out OF the
r3om and when she re eentered, which she
did before Mrs. PEBBLES began to talk, there
was look on her face telling that something
unusual had happened. She put her hand on
ii te back of chair, as if to steady herself, and
said: aMrs. Peebles,I think there is somebody
t&d,.o who GOV, to1l vo,1r sforv for Won y
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Sfletted guetrg.
A MOTHERS VOICE.

There's music in mothers voice,
More sweet than breezes signing;
There's kindness in mothers glance,
Too pure for ever dying.
There's love within mothers breast,
So deep tits still o'erfowing,
And care for those she calls her own,
That's ever, ever growing.
There's anguish in mothers tear,
When farewell fondly taking, =
That so the heart of pity moves,
Itscarcely keeps from breaking. &,
And when mother kneels to heaven,
And for her child is praying,
o, who shall half the fervor tell,
That burns in all she's saying.
A mother, how her tender arts
Can soothe the breast of sadness!
And through the gloom Of life once more
Bid shine the sun of glaaness.
A mother when Ike srsning's STAR
.Hssned8p6 IN coaeed defbEe rs
sEfoM brixhter WuSI Ids regards us stil:,a
SS Ard watches readily nAeHus #
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young m had he been there to see. At
last DenS neariy.blind with blows and rage,
made one grand effort to destroy his enemy
with an appearance of ease. 1t was fatal to
him. Brent Was really warm to his work,
and, not likely 6inissa an opening. In rapid
succession he Iuanaged oplant three blows
Just Under Donss left eye. the last delivered
with such force that itssenti the lumpy fellow
to grass, where he lay vanquished, Brent
standing ovar. him with fists still clinched,
and burning, it seemed, for q little more.
That was siz4eenr years ago John Done,
junior, was now rather bulky young man,
with white fiat face, very small sunken
eyes, smile which expressed a narrow mind
satisfied with itselS and unprepossessing
manners. Hb habits, too, had not been the
best, and it was known in Kettlewell that he
was, in his SLY way;srhan Of diasolute habits
He had now been sabsent, off and on, for
nearly four years; but when he returned
home be happened to hear,of Sophia Temple
and her little affair withS Percivdf Brent. By
curious chanceS he had met Brent in
Australia himself, and. altough oitwardly
civil to him, he remembered with a grudge
the thrashing of years gone by; for his nature
was of that sluggish sort, where revenge
burns long and sullenIy, like fuel in d slow
combustion stove When he came home and
heard about Sophia, the thought struck him
what a nice girl she was, and what . fine
thing it would be to marry the woman for
whom his former foe was working now In
another hemisphere! He pa1dered. His
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them no financial aid, always
niece and her aunt to spend the h
bis house. As the Christmas Of
near the two impoverished gentleH
gan to fix over their bits Of finery
pectation of the usual visit to Unc
Instead of the anticipated invite
ceived a very polite note from
ing that "the coming so far my
been a tax. upon them,"
"would. not again press IL
softened the blow with 81
best wishes and the cor
son.
There was a reason
the two disappointed ].
The Brysons hai
!: !; = !; !; ! ! ) , ,
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sEHAPTER VII.
boxing MATCH.

~ 80.
Il, who resided not far from Ket-
tleweul hsa occasional opportunities Of meet
inF nd Tepip!es; and it had been the little.
smntlst \ xxSectation that he might renew
hlES 1iI nsa, perhaps, after time, draw
n 6( 6(Eations to. himself. He made no
Sf seys3; and for long enough it seemed
,66 n; 3lis heroine was to have no further
fua6 fsuun mankind But at last-at the
ssid 81 ~ Sse years after Perciyals depart
u5e rs Arstralia-a new lover came upon
H. ne Mas Done. He was the only son
Of onel Juhn Done, retired merchant of
great Nss1th whose antecedents were gener-
Any ds this way, that he had some
|thine ta6 with leather. The Dones were
blaal isopae but not vulgar; and having re-
sided HB Kettlewelt for twenty years, and
Ebeinf table and religiees7z had grad
{aaIiS &1hds their way into our town society
In fs1f. they were now Received in companies
Whera pk fAelrsfrst coming, they dared not
hate {1f feet Still, it was never forgotten
kSas HI Boee was not altogether one Of us.
MhelIani ranger. would make inquiry con-
seEnine re reply would generally be in
thfs, ~ q: 66e is worthy old fellow, and
GS5 u it1i MINERS If you want a sub.
Aca M my good cause, go to Done
HT 32od Unaffected, and rot the least
M tS,s.sss early life he had something
tb "a I'M f$k&er." This last clause was
fInmnls "a ated as Faithfully as if it was
isne q I've the Queen"
tThe vtx6es6ft fthe Dones being not of Mrs.
BarharS VfB's kind-piety and clarity
dould n6S her regard anybody with
kvnpl-ii fEar origin and manner being
M.in ~ Eaf never liked them. Indeed, at
IT, tie W6ahl not ridicule people in COM
sps WuitH sometimes say to her daugh-
~ e n6ahdnk could ever be made of those
ASxaass beople Then, with charac-
fifosla q s.too sweeping assertion, she
woIIiiId ~ xcept sometimes, deals-ex-
cent souaetimes.p "You know, girls" she
said one day, m bar gay style, lit is pro
verb thsk' thofe b ndthing like leather; don't
think t6eis Il Which she delivered with one
of her rfenchined faces of dislike, which al
ways ut The girk laughing. The plain bones
dreaisd the.wifty, dashing, fashionable MRS
Barbara Temple; and Mrs. Barbara Temple
REGARDED thApiain Dones with repressed' but
notinyiibIe, scorn.
5Thera asers John Done the first, and John
Done tIis second As is very often the case
with sd1,s of self-made men, John Done,
ilniors si1ile lacking his fathers native sense
ard bSatfRass energy, had inherited double
5stis2zre Mo AanaAliness- made quite iptoler-
sh16s sby d iraSsy assurance and disregard OF
ctbeA Apsoplss feelings, which indeed amount
ed TO an snxissy to infict pain. wherever be
couId AZ acbool he. had been hated for
tysant and bully, and it was also known
aznonA lie boys that he would tell leland
that n2ts schnolroom lie-whenever it suited
bis game. Percival R,,e1 went to school
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QUAKER SHOPKEEPEBS.

A cause which brought.much sufferiI
on the quiet people must not be omitted
their founder insisted on the strictest no
esty in all commercial matters. In Il
earliest days if Friend kept a shop
was avoided as if it were charnel hous
and an artifcer who professed the san
creed might reckon on being witho
work for an indefinite period. Many
these unhappy people must have be-
starved to death had it not been that s
most from its very foundation the sect hi
been organized into. what can only [
described as 4 huge friendly society, upd
the funds Of Wbichany member could fa|
back in time Of need without feeling hifI
self an object OF charity.
This, however,, did not always safid
as numbers of tile more bigoted PuritaI
refused to sell them food, and the FrieI
had frequently to walk long distances
love or money. Fox relates thu r.
good sized town there, Was
would sell him cup of pa3 iass !.S2a!
% That he was was compsned f6 ak
hodoe from whence he was ls1
morn;no bw blows nom tue aF BITE fnts||
Litants. But gradually ti s Rnl|
Hied away. and tho InGsets eny TO 4
% other extreme-Quaker shops were crow
odHl oihel ifsnaker Ana wosEndep dai lepfand * 4,
az; th;s Il a ,,ow Fox : Saccas{sts for The chang
! s.xvbsn NV S 81 neonla e1ffts ohaXE expefiei
os y ssr;entiss & fonestN and ithfulness, 9
4 found mat fheif ef 9as yea, anu s.iord ~
4 nav was nay tiiesE epss'sa rs. @niu ~ ,
tl,eiE dealing flass sne aas Susu ~,
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t6'g.
BEAUTY'S SECRET.
BY ALAN MUIR.
CHAPTER vi.


IN WHICH LADY BEAUTY HAS HER PORTRAIT
PAINTED IN PRINTERS INK.
[Shall I tell you why have written this
storys It was because met Sophia Temple,
then styled @Lady Beauty" in her fifty-third
wear: and her power to charm lat an age
wher charms are commonly supposed to be
dead and gone) led me to ask, What is this
womans secrets And having searched into
her life and character, and noted her ways, l
venture to offer this imperfect record OF her
life. and this still more imperfect picture OF
herself, for the study Of her sex generally l
wish to convince women that it is great
mistake on their part to suppose that their
power to please departs with youth. At all
times have noticed that men of sense seldom
admire-or, if you like, grow enamored Of
women for beauty alone, but for chafacter,
manner. taste and conversation. Now while
beauty I'VE must admit) lessons with time,
character, manner, taste and conversation
NAV each be refined and enriched; and these,
I believe, by their improvement can quite
compensate for the loss OF personal charms.
Mere beauty is but one bright, unchanging
beam-it viii grow even wearisome; but
wit, sense, courtesy and humanity are forever
casting forth new and unexpected rays, and
enlivening intercourse with agreeable sur
prises. And 80 the story Of Lady Beauty is
written as a humble attempt to encourage
women to try to be charming to their latest
day. For they can do it If they try.]
Sophia was without question far inferior in
physical beauty to Sibyl, and think most
people would have said that she was not SO
handsome as Caroline. Her features were
regular, her nose straight and fine, her COM
plexion delicate and rosy; but still, in her
face she was no model of wOmanhood Her
expression what is expression but char
acter fixed in the countenance-madeSo Sophia
what she was Her delicate upper lip, with
the hint of firmness in its fine line, told of
resolution; the soft hazel eyes, with their up
ward glance, had look OF aspiration; tns
mouth was full of tenderness, ready to mold
itself to every affectionate feeling. But what
was this after all! Sophia's nature in So
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-27

Yes. IL is rather warm. but we must
take th, weather as ii comes. We should
be thankful TO have any. and even hot
weather is better than none at all. IL
has its cOmIGnSatng features. 1heie Is
no both.ring with overcolts. fur gloves.
ear mulIS. etc. Fires do not have 70 lie
raked every few minutes. Your horse
dos not have to be rough shnL to keep
him from falling on the ice. Your own
head is not sNp,~"d Ia an avalanche Of
snow from the roof as you walk the
streets. The gas and water pipes are not
frozen up. The young man who hangs
on your front gate al night is IN no dan
ger of being fro~thitteu. There Is no dan
ger of pumps freezing: no necessity of
covering cucumber vines. fruit of all
kinds is perfectly safe If the boys can I
get at it: waterIuelons are beyond the
danger point if they are under lock and
key; last winter Ice crop Il safe beyond
doubt: no immediate danger Of biz
Zard; good time To prune the thermome-
ter 10y cutting off the lower half. In
fact. hot weather has many cOmpensa-
tons. not the least Of which is that il
teaches patience. Wait and it will he
cooler. Christmas is coming. ng.-lndian-
apolis Journal.
Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-07-27
AN AGGRievEO CITIZEN
He pours His Woes lat" the Tar Of
Bill Nye.

n, h,arl dny coach VI The g,.ot tr1Ink
In, running from, the Batt.ry vi. Stytb ava.
rua 10 Harlem fell IN the other ,lay with a
highly cultivated ola gentleman who now re
sides IN Brooklyu Together We eirjove,i the
delightful stretch Of dark red scenery aud al
vsrt,seme,,rs which greets the enraprured eve
along this great scenic route Together We
inhaled th. Thousand odurs of hot. sour
sIIeys and damp cellars. and together we
looked into second story rooms where pov-
-rty Law uanting in the awfu! heat that had
scrumular.d all iay and now shut down with
tb,. night like a stifiug garment la our
conversation he said:
Il generally aim To let the papers alone if
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A Real New York Aristocrat

Is man who made brisk canvass as a
politician. served well as minister Ia Italy.
models admirably in clay, has written u
good book. Is now writing play. manages
an estate Of Se0o. 600. 900 skillfully, and is
the virtual head of what undoubtedly
ranks as the first family in America. He
is clever, brilliant Well born, and has had
every advautange that boundless wealth
could buy He can box like professional,
has broad shoulders, and apparently never
thinks of his attire. His father calls him
''BiH." On every coach that day there
were prm, tightly clad, supercilious and
Oyerdrcsscd young men. sitting erect and
staring with affected indifference at the
vulgar herd that surged below them In
dpuhtcdly they felt like aristocrats, or
tried TO, but they looked like lot if tail
ors' clerks. The only man among them
who was absolutely indifferent to his sur
roundings and his poHtion was William
Waldorf Astor.-New York Cor. Argo-
uaut.
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The Fatal Furrier's Collie.

Furri,rs colo is becoming fatal dis
ease. if what local furrier tells me
amounts 10 anything. 1t is contracted
by working on fine furs and inhaling the
small particles which rise from them.
These PARTICLES accumulate in the lungs
and stomach. and when once they are IN
haled ii is impossible TO rid ones self of
them. They are liable 10 cause consump-
ton or cancer of the stomach. Said my
friend, the furrier: 1T is impossible for
one Ia work on furs over six months at
time and not become affected. 1t is very
lucky for furriers that their season is not
a long one. To be sure when they work
six months they receive but six months
pay. but they have chance to live
longer than they would were they obliged
10 work all the year around. Brass buff
ing is similar 10 working on furs. The
small particles Of brass get into man 5
lungs and cause an incurable disease. -
Rambler in Brooklyn Eagle.
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About two weeks ago Dakota farmer
WAS approached by "a stranger, who said:
What Will YOU take for that little
sGort horned yearling out there in the
SHrdg'
Bout $15"
as he gcntle,"
s'Ycs"
Never kicks"
NO"
"So danger Of butting a fellow over
with his head
''Not a hit; my children play with him
whenever they take notion"
"Well, guess I'll take him. I'm agent
for Hollerwell * Showpoor's Anti-Euro-
pean Circus. and We need another buffalo
for our Wild West" department. BY
the time we put "A hump on his shoulders
and paint his horns black you wouldn't
know your calf hope he'll stay gentle,
though; the last one we had hooked three
of our cowboys of their horses. disabled
two Buffalo Bills and drove Texas Jack,
the western terror, up the center pole.
He acted 50 We had 10 tie him up with the
elephants. give him coat of red paint
and call him the terrible man eating jog
glewock, captured ia Central Africa at
great expense and loss of life. Do You
suppose the calf will drink milka-the
sacred COW gives little more than the
zebra will take Dakota Bell
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One Style Of Ma aay beauty.

There Is a peculiar classical style Of
manly beauty which all persons who
know anything of the subject must asso-
,Ciate with eminence in the law and i'll or
atory. There have been plenty Of able
lawyers and inspired orators who We're
anything but handsome men. But that
type of strong and comeiy physiog"my
which characterized Daniel Webster. and
which has given title to a certain sort OF
physical and facial impressivencss, has he
come pretty certain index of the quail
ity of man it endows. You say of it,:
There lis man who has brains to think
and the gift to express his IDEAS and
you are rarely mistaken in your judg
ment. A few fools of fortune NAV wear
the masquerade. but they are the acci-
dents. like white crows and two headed
calves. Alfred Trumble in New York
News.
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the Editor OF the Republic:

To the Editnr Of the Republic:
SrRIN"FIEI.p. o.. July -. 1887.
desire through your columns To call the
attention ut ''UtC I'OICerS nIdT be" to the
careless lought tu be- criminall practice of
throwing paper in the street. Ii is spec
ially practiced by our merchants who open
boxes on the pavement. They may intend
10 gather up the paper. but if il is windy
iay the paper is mostly blown over the
streets before they are ready 10 clean up
There are very few horses that do not
frghten at loose paper. only yesterday a
horse was frightened on north Market
street turned around suddenly. upset the
buggy and threw out two Young ladies.
who had a Very narrow escape from severe
injury or death.
Ii there is an ordinance against this prac
tce it should he rigidiT enforced, il not
there should be. II. NJ :.